Thomas J. Mc Tighe Jr.
GIS Specialist 
  phone:  217.384.1833
  email:  mctighe@lanl.gov
  url:  http://mctighe.webhop.org
  resume:  resume

GIS Portfolio

Contents:

  • Recent Projects
  • Publications and Presentations
  • Senior Thesis Project
  • External Links

Recent Projects

  • Archaeological Predictive Model (APM) - Case Studies in Building the Archaeological Predictive Model [pdf format]

  • West Nile Virus, Illinois 2002 - developing a web portal for case mapping and data serving for the Illinois WNV outbreak of 2000. Data served the Illinois Department of Public Health, Illinois Department of Agriculture and Chicago Public Health Department [pdf format]

  • Lyme Disease, Predicting Habitat Suitability of Ixodes scapularis - a model for the Eastern United States [word format]

  • GIS Workshop - hands-on GIS intensive for veterinary faculty, staff and students; lab lecturer and assistant [powerpoint format]


Publications and Presentations

M. Ruiz, U. Kitron and T. McTighe. "Space-Time Intelligence" Geospatial Solutions 15(2), February 2005

Marilyn Ruiz, Thomas McTighe, Shuo Yang, Tad Britt, David Norris, Eric McDonald and Tom Bullard. An Archeological Predictive Model for Fort Irwin, California: an approach to model development and technology transfer. Desert Surficial Processes and Landscape Dynamics on Military Lands Workshop. Desert Studies Center. Zzyzx, California. September 18-22, 2004 [Abstract]

Marilyn Ruiz, Thomas McTighe, Tad Britt. Every Person’s Guide to Landscape Characterization. 2004 ESRI International User Conference Map Gallery. Map 518. San Diego, CA. August, 2004

Ruiz, M., Tedesco, C., McTighe, T., Austin, C. and Kitron, U. "Environmental and social determinants of human risk during a West Nile virus outbreak in the greater Chicago area, 2002". International Journal of Health Geographics: 3(8), 2004

Thomas Mc Tighe, Julie Clennon, Uriel Kitron, Aaron Lippold, David Norris, Marilyn O. Ruiz, 2004, Spatial Analysis and Mapping of West Nile Virus in Illinois. Environmental Systems Research Institute Map Book, Volume 19, Map 301

M. Ruiz and T. McTighe. "The iPIX Mapping System: GIS with a 360° View" Geospatial Solutions 13(3), March 2003

Ruiz, M., T. Britt and T. McTighe. Geostatistics for an Archeological Site Potential Model. Proceedings of the 2002 ESRI International User Conference. San Diego, CA. July, 2002

Phillips, Andrew C., Rhoads, Bruce L., McTighe, Thomas J., and Klaus, Courtney, "Photoanalytic Assessment of Dynamics in Tributary Streams of the Illinois River Basin". Geological Society of America (GSA). A River Runs Through It: North-Central Section (36th) and Southeastern Section (51st), GSA Joint Annual Meeting. Lexington, Kentucky. Session No. 22-0. April 3-5, 2002

Thomas J. Mc Tighe, Bruce L. Rhoads, Andrew C. Phillips, 2002, "Photoanalytic Assessment of Dynamics in Tributary Streams of the Illinois River Basin". Illinois Governor's Conference, Presentation

Grimley, D.A., and T.J. McTighe, 2004 (1998), Bedrock Topography of Maple Park Quadrangle, Kane County, IL: Illinois State Geological Survey, Illinois Preliminary Geologic Map Series, 1:24,000.


Senior Thesis Project

The Geography 291 Senior Thesis course is an optional, honors-level independent study offered by the University of Illinois Department of Geography. I took GEOG291 during the summer of my senior year with instructor Jane Domier, whose specialization is in digital cartography and spatial techniques. My project entailed a remote region along the Norwegian-Swedish border which was the subject of an ongoing microclimatological study. My thesis involved the production of a high-resolution digital elevation model from raw hypsometric vector graphics. The detailed report is available at the link below.


External Links

Below are some links to recent College of Veterinary Medicine projects in which I was involved. These projects entailed the employment of Geographic Information Systems in constructing environmental models for archaeological, epidemiological and zoonotic studies. The applications of these modeling techniques are seen in military applications, disease control and tracking, and the public health sector. I also Assisted in proctoring GIS workshops and courses for veterinary faculty, students and staff. The coursework introduced students to the use and implementation of GIS and its application in veterinary science and public health informatics.

  • GISSA Lab systems maintenance, cross-platform networking, protocol documenation
  • West Nile Virus, Illinois - case mapping and data maintenance for Illinois state
  • Lyme Disease - Spatial Epidemiology Lyme disease webpages at the College of Veterinary Medicine
  • Fort Irwin, California - archaeological modeling for predictive human habitation suitability
  • Veterinary Pathobiology 560, Spatial Epidemiology - GIS course with VP focus; lab assistant


© Thomas Mc Tighe 2005